INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian ballistic missile strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih killed 16 people on Friday, six of
them children, authorities said.The missile struck a residential area near a children's playground and wounded more than two dozen others,
according to the head of the city's military administration.Unverified videos on social media appeared to show bodies lying on a street,
while another showed a plume of smoke rising into the evening sky."Sixteen lives lost
This is the kind of pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy," regional Governor Serhiy Lysak said on Telegram.United States President
Donald Trump has been pushing for a speedy end to the more than three-year war since taking office, but his administration has failed to
broker a ceasefire despite talks with both sides.Zelensky said the attack showed Russia had no interest in stopping its invasion."There is
The whole world sees it," he said.The Ukrainian leader was born in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city that had a pre-war population of around
600,000 people.Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a joint United States -Ukrainian proposal for an unconditional and full ceasefire
in March, while the Kremlin has made a United States -proposed truce in the Black Sea dependent on the West lifting certain sanctions.
